Toll

noun
1.
a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge.
2.
the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity:
The toll was 300 persons dead or missing.
3.
a tax, duty, or tribute, as for services or use of facilities.
4.
a payment made for a long-distance telephone call.
5.
(formerly, in England) the right to take such payment.
6.
a compensation for services, as for transportation or transmission.
7.
grain retained by a miller in payment for grinding.
verb (used with object)
8.
to collect (something) as toll.
9.
to impose a tax or toll on (a person).
verb (used without object)
10.
to collect toll; levy toll.
verb (used with object), Also, tole (for defs 5, 6).
1.
to cause (a large bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning a congregation to church, or especially for announcing a death.
2.
to sound or strike (a knell, the hour, etc.) by such strokes:
In the distance Big Ben tolled five.
3.
to announce by this means; ring a knell for (a dying or dead person).
4.
to summon or dismiss by tolling.
5.
to lure or decoy (game) by arousing curiosity.
6.
to allure; entice:
He tolls us on with fine promises.
verb (used without object)
7.
to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as a bell.
noun
8.
the act of tolling a bell.
9.
one of the strokes made in tolling a bell.
10.
the sound made.
verb (used with object), Law.
1.
to suspend or interrupt (as a statute of limitations).
verb
1.
to ring or cause to ring slowly and recurrently
2.
(transitive) to summon, warn, or announce by tolling
3.
(US & Canadian) to decoy (game, esp ducks)
noun
4.
the act or sound of tolling
noun
1.

an amount of money levied, esp for the use of certain roads, bridges, etc, to cover the cost of maintenance
(as modifier): toll road, toll bridge

2.
loss or damage incurred through an accident, disaster, etc: the war took its toll of the inhabitants
3.
Also called tollage. (formerly) the right to levy a toll
4.
(NZ) Also called toll charge. a charge for a telephone call beyond a free-dialling area

one of the branches of the king of Persia’s revenues (Ezra 4:13; 7:24), probably a tax levied from those who used the bridges and fords and highways.

see: take its toll